Education
1982 Laurea Degrees in Chemistry, Padua University
1986 Ph.D degree in Chemistry, Padua University
Academic Appointments
Since 2005 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Parma University
2013-2015 Coordinator of the undergraduate courses in Chemistry, Parma University
2007-2011 Coordinator of the PhD course in Material Science, Parma University
2000-2005 Associate Professor of Chemical Physics, Parma University
1991-2000 Assistant Professor, Parma University
1988-1991 Researcher at Centro di Studio sugli Stati Molecolari Radicalici ed Eccitati del CNR in Padova
Scientific activity
H-index: 38 Total publications: 188 Total citations: 5156 (Web of science Nov 2023)
- Principal investigator in the ITN project Using the smart matrix approach to enhance TADF-OLED efficiency and Lifetime, TADFlife (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018)
- International coordinator del progetto Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN-607721 2013-2017 Nano2Fun: Nanochemistry of molecular materials for 2-photon functional applications
- Italian coordinator of the Executive Program of Scientific and Technologic cooperation between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India 2017 - 2019, su Charge and Energy Transfer in Molecular Functional Materials
- Italian coordinator of the Executive Program of Scientific and Technologic cooperation between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India 2012 - 2014, From Small Molecules to Advanced Molecular Materials: Transport and Transfer Properties
- Italian coordinator of the Executive Program of Scientific and Technologic cooperation between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India 2008 - 2010, Designing novel photosystems for enhanced charge transfer efficiency: a detailed theoretical modelling
- Italian coordinator of Galileo2007 project: Nanoscopic organic structures: experimental and theoretical investigations of innovative organic and hybrid systems.
- National coordinator project PRIN2006 (Chromophores in organic and hybrid nanostructures: supramolecular control of photonic properties
- 2002-2007 Editorial Board member of Physical Review B (American Physical Society)
- 2014- Advisory Editorial Board of Chemical Physics Letters (Elsevier)
- Expert-evaluator for the EU Commission; Reviewer for the Department of Energy, USA, and for several EU states.
- Referee for several scientific journals: of the American Chemical Society, of the American Physical Society, of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Wiley, Elsevier, Nature-group etc.
Major scientific interests
Photophysics and Optical spectroscopy, Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular functional materials; Organic optoelectronics, Molecular aggregates and crystals, Chirality
